Scientists are trying to name the qualities that make someone wise and figure out how to cultivate them. ✍️ Emily Laber-Warren

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-is-wisdom-can-it-be-taught

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Success made in Hof 🌍
Ashwanth Krishna Vijay hat seinen MBA an der Hochschule Hof gemacht und arbeitet heute in Columbus, Ohio, für GEALAN.
Von Coimbatore (Indien) über Oberfranken nach Nordamerika: Diese Reise hat in Hof begonnen. 🎓✈️

Erfahrt hier mehr zu seinem Weg: https://campuls.hof-university.de/hochschule-wirtschaft/success-made-in-hof-ashwanth-krishna-von-oberfranken-nach-nordamerika/

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Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere else. The world’s oceans may be a promising option.

✍️ Sandy Ong

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/how-to-store-co2-in-ocean-fight-climate-change

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A growing body of research suggests that our closest known relatives, the Neanderthals, had brains to go with their brawn 🧠 💪

The latest finding: Neanderthals may have used birch tar as an antibiotic salve.

✍️ Laura Baisas reports at Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/health/neanderthals-antibiotic-birch-tar-medicine/

For more evidence of Neanderthal creativity, read our 2023 story.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/new-finds-about-neanderthal-brains-and-behavior

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You won’t see a beaver sitting with its tail stretched out behind it in the new Disney-Pixar film Hoppers.

That’s thanks to Emily Fairfax, a scientist who studies how these ecosystem engineers can make landscapes fire- and drought-resistant.

Fairfax lent her expertise to the making of the film, ensuring that the beaver science was up to snuff.

🎧️ Listen/watch Fairfax in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/04/hoppers-movie-beaver-consultant-emily-fairfax

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Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — with much still to be discovered.

✍️ Christina Szalinski

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/noncoding-rna-molecules-in-cells

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Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists to better understand the universe. ✍️ Katie McCormick

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2023/probing-mysteries-neutron-stars-surprising-earthly-analog

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Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.

✍️ Gennaro Tomma

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/new-fishing-tech-cuts-bycatch-turtles-marine-creatures

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🔬 Unser Forschungsnewsletter für März ist online! 📨
Stadtvorlesungen, Wassermanagament der Zukunft, HAW Professur und Nachbericht IT FORUM OBERFRANKEN 2026 - zur Web-Ansicht der aktuellen Ausgabe: https://284758.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/16919850/0-7472c895ee10b8a4d4a797590b7a19854b24f25ea5d334ae66f4853a7bb9d579bea01933eefcc41178fc7906115f6a33

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